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Good PC's needed (80386, 8086, 4004 :-D) report what you h (Developers)

posted by marcov, 02.05.2008, 23:19

> There was no demand for the SX before Intel started selling it - the major
> point of the 486 was having the CPU and FPU on the same die. Disabling the
> FPU, so as to be able to sell the chip for less, was definitely not part
> of the original plan. The sequence of events was 1) Find defects in FPU,
> 2) What do we do with this crap, 3) Try to sell what's left at a discount.
> No. 3 worked - low-cost PC makers liked it, sold SX machines as a cheaper
> upgrade from the 386.

Note there was another cheaper 486, the SLC, which had halved memory bandwidth (like the 386sx), and its brother the DLC (similar, but with copro)

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        Good PC's needed (80386, 8086, 4004 :-D) report what you h - Steve, 03.05.2008, 15:20
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- Good PC's needed (80386, 8086, 4004 :-D) report what you h - rr, 02.05.2008, 16:43
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